A village in Kent is home to what is thought to be the world's largest scale model of the solar system and beyond, created to ...

The John J. McCarthy Observatory in New Milford will unveil its scale model of the solar system Nov. 14. Following a brief ceremony at the Route 7 South observatory, behind the high school, the ...

Despite Douglas Adams’ efforts, there’s simply no way words can convey how large space is, but models are a different matter.

Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...

Trying to understand the Universe is often less about seeing it clearly and more about accepting how quickly our intuition ...

A scale model of the solar system, with each planet depicted in relief on individual square granite markers installed atop concrete bases embedded in the ground. Each planet bears a laser etched ...